The American Petroleum Institute (API) is urging EPA to clarify key provisions of its environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool, known as EJSCREEN, including seeking guidance on how to identify "fenceline" communities and define "cumulative impacts," just as the agency's Science Advisory Board (...
Progressive groups are calling for policymakers to create a new environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool that is more robust than EPA’s current EJSCREEN, a measure supporters say would complement calls from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, for agencies to asse...
Senior Trial Attorney Christopher J. Costantini, Trial Attorneys Stephen J. Foster and Erica H. Pencak of the Environmental Crimes Section of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resource Division (ENRD), and Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme. The federal civil case is being ...
"Applications, data, and models served on EPA GeoPlatform help people do their jobs better and enhance environmental decision making," says Harvey Simon, EPA's acting geographic information officer. The agency-wide web mapping service allows EPA to use the Esri-hosted infrastructure in a ...
From an infrastructure perspective, the EJA provided the groundwork and taught EJ advocates how to address injustices in their community with specific skills such as community mapping with the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN) [18] and Community-Focused Exposure and Risk ...
Participatory science is an invaluable tool for communities disproportionately impacted by environmental issues, also known asenvironmental justiceconcerns. Engaging community members directly in science projects that address local concerns about air and water pollution can lead to better environmental data, im...
The CAMEO system integrates a chemical database and a method to manage the data, an air dispersion model, and a mapping capability. All modules work interactively to share and display critical information in a timely fashion. The CAMEO system is available in Macintosh and Windows formats. ...
The public interest law firm Earthjustice released the report—entitledPoisoned Food, Poison Brains: Mapping dangerous pesticides in the foods we eat(pdf)—just weeks before the EPA is set to announce new restrictions on chlorpyrifos. Earthjustice, along with farmworker and p...
Mapping the scope and impacts of EPA'S environmental justice small grants program This chapter evaluates the collective impact of these investments.Design/methodology/approach – Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of EJSG funds relative to data from the Toxics Release ...
2010. "Building Community Capacity? Mapping the Scope and Impacts of EPA's Environmental Justice Small Grants Program." Pp. 353-81 in Environment and Social Justice: An International Perspective (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 18), edited by D. E. Taylor. Bingley, UK: Emerald ...